Vanguard Health Care Fund Market Value

VHCIX Fund  USD 128.33  1.25  0.98%   
Vanguard Health's market value is the price at which a share of Vanguard Health trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Vanguard Health Care investors about its performance. Vanguard Health is trading at 128.33 as of the 24th of August 2025; that is 0.98 percent up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 127.08.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Vanguard Health Care and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Vanguard Health over a given investment horizon. Check out Vanguard Health Correlation, Vanguard Health Volatility and Vanguard Health Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Vanguard Health.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Vanguard Health's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Vanguard Health is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Vanguard Health's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.

Vanguard Health 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Vanguard Health's mutual fund what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Vanguard Health.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Vanguard Health on May 26, 2025 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Vanguard Health Care or generate 0.0% return on investment in Vanguard Health over 90 days. Vanguard Health is related to or competes with Vanguard Information, Vanguard Consumer, Vanguard Consumer, Vanguard Financials, and Vanguard Utilities. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, an index made up of sto... More

Vanguard Health Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Vanguard Health's mutual fund current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess Vanguard Health Care upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Vanguard Health Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Vanguard Health's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Vanguard Health's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Vanguard Health historical prices to predict the future Vanguard Health's volatility.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
127.43128.33129.23
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
116.52117.42141.16
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Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
131.09131.99132.88
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Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowerMiddle BandUpper
118.97124.14129.30
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Vanguard Health Care Backtested Returns

At this stage we consider Vanguard Mutual Fund to be very steady. Vanguard Health Care owns Efficiency Ratio (i.e., Sharpe Ratio) of 0.11, which indicates the fund had a 0.11 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. We have found twenty-eight technical indicators for Vanguard Health Care, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the fund. Please validate Vanguard Health's Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.0528, coefficient of variation of 1458.87, and Semi Deviation of 0.8979 to confirm if the risk estimate we provide is consistent with the expected return of 0.0989%. The entity has a beta of 0.88, which indicates possible diversification benefits within a given portfolio. Vanguard Health returns are very sensitive to returns on the market. As the market goes up or down, Vanguard Health is expected to follow.

Auto-correlation

    
  0.33  

Below average predictability

Vanguard Health Care has below average predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Vanguard Health time series from 26th of May 2025 to 10th of July 2025 and 10th of July 2025 to 24th of August 2025. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Vanguard Health Care price movement. The serial correlation of 0.33 indicates that nearly 33.0% of current Vanguard Health price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.33
Spearman Rank Test0.04
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance4.6

Vanguard Health Care lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Vanguard Health mutual fund's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Vanguard Health's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Vanguard Health returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Vanguard Health has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the mutual fund is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Vanguard Health regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Vanguard Health mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Vanguard Health mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Vanguard Health mutual fund over time.
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Vanguard Health Lagged Returns

When evaluating Vanguard Health's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Vanguard Health mutual fund have on its future price. Vanguard Health autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Vanguard Health autocorrelation shows the relationship between Vanguard Health mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Vanguard Health Care.
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